CIATRE
PROFESSIONAL THEATRE COMPANIES' ASSOCIATION OF CATALONIA

CIATRE is an association of professional theatre companies which groups different Catalan companies, created in the month of June, 1996 with the aim to strengthen and maintain a private and independent style of creating, managing and propagating theatrical shows. The companies in our association, some of which have a history of more than twenty years and millions of spectators around the world, are creators, producers and distributors of their own shows. Their artistic diversity is an important element to consider when seeking common solutions to common problems. In face of the "State culture" which has made, in all of Europe, the State the businessman with the most power and in face of the pure and simple commercial offer of private producers, Ciatre represents a third way in which, without disengaging itself from market laws it makes a bid for rigorous research and innovation in the language in our companies' shows. Ciatre's objectives are: Preserve theatre of independent creation which is a first important cultural resource for society. Establish a platform for agreements with public cultural agents. Defend theatrical policies and spaces which will allow for the growth and consolidation of new companies. Establish contacts and exchange information with siilar associations to Ciatre in Europe and in the rest of the world. Distribuite information among the members of the association about everything that affects our sector: labour agreements, national and international regulations, employment market situation, institutional subventions and international subventions, etc. At the moment, the seventeen companies which are introduced in this web page form part of Ciatre. Neverthless, our association hopes and wishes to open its doors to all those professional companies which share the principles under which it was created. Ciatre is convinced that, from its common stand, it can achieve its basic objective to make the Theatre's voice of imagination, without forgetting the essential madness to maintain a theatrical style which we have formed these past years. Barcelona, June, 1997